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[Discuss] SSD Drives



FYI I downloaded the ISO and booted with that.  You don't need Windows,
just the ability to burn an ISO to CD/DVD/whatever.

I have the EVO 840 in my laptop as well and after booting with the cd
burned from the ISO file, the software told me if wasn't needed, so must
be running the latest firmware.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+bvogel=accessint.com at blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Derek Atkins
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 4:18 PM
> To: Richard Pieri
> Cc: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] SSD Drives
> 
> Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 6/22/2015 11:34 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Does one require a Windows box to upgrade the firmware or can it be
> >> upgraded from Linux?  :)
> >
> > I dunnow. Did you check Samsung's support web site?
> 
> Eventually I did.  The answer is "yes", assuming you want to do an
online
> update.  Otherwise you could download an ISO image that apparently
might
> be able to boot to a firmware updater.
> 
> (I have an EVO 840 in my laptop, but no idea what version of f/w it's
running).
> 
> -derek
> 
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